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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Chris Jackson: Real People in Fantasy Worlds

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As a professional sailor, writer, scientist, and life-long gamer, writing nautical and RPG tie-in fantasy came naturally for Chris.  His Sci...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Motivational Monday: Oh, Misery!

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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Sunday Funnies: Is It Though?

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Saturday, September 27, 2025

[Link] A 5-Minute Fix for a Blah Scene

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by Janice Hardy Sometimes the best fix isn’t changing what characters say—it’s changing where they say it. This might be sacrilegious as a s...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Teel James Gleen releases A Walking Shadow

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A Walking Shadow blends classic horror and hard-boiled intrigue.  Published by Macabre Ink (Cross Roads Press) It is the year 1939, and Ada...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Paige Watts: Finding the Balance

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This week we're jumping into an interview with a non-fiction travel writer. Paige Watts is an Atlanta-based travel blogger, and ready to...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Motivational Monday: Writing Changes Everything

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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Sunday Funnies: The Irony of It All Is...

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Saturday, September 20, 2025

[Link] Editing for Self-Published Authors: Types of Edits and How to Find the Right Editor

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by A.C. Williams Your manuscript is written. You’ve celebrated. You’ve done your research and prepared for every potential scenario, and now...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Skerry Tales by Milton Davis available for pre-order!

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Skerry Tales by Milton Davis.  Release date: October 1, 2025. Currently available for pre-order. Art: Bloodline by Oz Ezeogu. Cover design ...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

The Name Game: How Do You Name Your Characters?

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Let's talk about naming your characters for the new Roundtable. What resources do you consider the most valuable when coming up with cha...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Movie Reviews for Writers: House of Long Shadows

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  It's not the most common trope in movies about writers, but it is common enough to be a trope. What is it? It's the bet, the wager...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Megan Mackie: Cooking the Books

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Megan Mackie is a Chicago writer. She started her writing career as an indie author and had such smashing success in her first year with her...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Motivational Monday: Reading As Preventative Brain Medicine

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"Fiction is a challenge to your working memory," says neurologist and neuropsychologist Richard Restaks. Fiction reading requires ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Sunday Funnies: Mystery at the Mystery Shelf

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Saturday, September 13, 2025

[Link] How to Revise Your Novel Like a Pro (Without Losing Your Mind) With Alice Sudlow

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by Savannah Gilbo You've finally done it. After months of wrestling with character arcs, plot holes, and that stubborn middle section th...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Shudder Stories to Send Shivers Up Your Spine!

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Creeping to you from Becky Books! The so-called “shudder pulps” of the 1930s enticed Depression-era readers into dark alleys of weird menace...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

[Link] What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

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Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyr...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Movie Reviews for Writers: The House in Marsh Road

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In this fun little ghost flick based on the book The House in Marsh Road by Laurence Meynell, David Linton is a "novelist" who is...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Steve and Paul: Two Men and a Typewriter

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Steve Murphy has spent much of his life in uniform, starting with four years in the Navy as a GMM, where he earned the Navy Expeditionary Me...